Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Volatile Mosaic One week ago, AdExchanger Daily noted an update to Google Search rankings based on open hours where stores or local services plummet from search result pages when they’re closed. But it isn’t just local businesses or happening during open hours. Google […]
Pundits predicted Microsoft would use Xandr to create an ad-supported video game content fortress, with the ad tech business getting exclusive access to Microsoft’s gaming IP. Any ambitions in that direction may now be on hold.
Will Meta “GIF Up” GIPHY? Facebook parent company Meta is in the hot seat again. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the UK’s competition watchdog, has called on Meta to offload Giphy, the GIF search engine and content animation service it acquired in May 2020, citing multiple anti-competition concerns in a press release. The CMA […]
AdExchanger’s Social Distancing With Friends podcast now has its own channel. Subscribe on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher or wherever you listen to podcasts. About two weeks ago, when this podcast was recorded with Jim Squires, VP of business and media at Instagram, Facebook’s acquisition of GIPHY and the rollout of Facebook Shops were two […]
Facebook bought GIPHY for $400 million Friday, with plans to more tightly integrate with Instagram. Axios was the first to report the deal. “By bringing Instagram and GIPHY together, we can make it easier for people to find the perfect GIFs and stickers in Stories and Direct,” Facebook said in a blog post announcing the […]
GIPHY is growing up. The search engine for GIFs is partnering with Oracle Data Cloud’s Moat to measure viewability, ad delivery and invalid traffic for short-form branded content on its platform. The metrics will be baked into the price of media and available for all campaigns and sponsored GIFs starting in Q4 when GIPHY and […]
W Hotels turned to a new kind of cultural language to publicize its Wake Up Call music festival last month: the GIF. The Marriott-owned brand teamed up with Giphy for both the pre-campaign awareness push and an on-site activation for the festival, which W launched in 2016 and plans to roll out globally this year. […]
